In 2006 I visited a nearby art gallery where I lived in the inner city of Sydney. Looking through some handprints of a rather well known Australian photographer - Harold Cazneaux I was inspired to take a trip to the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The photograph I was drawn to in particular was of a gum tree named The Spirit of Endurance taken some time in the 1930s. As it turned out, it was one of the most memorable photo trips I had done.
The photograph above is not of that tree but of another gum tree arching over a dried up creek in the early morning. Yes, it would have been interesting to capture this image after a significant rainfall with a flowing creek underneath it’s branches but as with any situation involving nature, you get what you are given and in this case the lighting could not have been better. And the tree remains the sole subject.